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Saturday, 26 June 2010

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #109 - Ice Cream

Neapolitan is one of my favourite ice creams so this was easy! The image is from a template I have had for ages and never used before as is the backing paper - both are from Stamptv. The image is coloured in with pencils and OMS and also Marvy Brush Markers. I have used glossy accents on the raspberry topping to give that shiny slipperiness of melting ice cream.

The sentiment is a Janet original and is handwritten with my new best friend a 0.1 black fineliner. The jury is out as to whether I should have done this on the computer instead.

Janet, neapolitan is indeed one of the best. Your card is also very delicious looking. I love the image of the ice cream cone and all the fine coloring you have done. It is beautiful. Now I must tell you that Thursday night my dh and I decided to go to Bruster's ice cream place. We had a BOGO coupon so we got the waffle cones. I watched in horror as she piled in 4 scoops of toffee fudge i.c. While she was filling dh's cone, I started eating, b/c mine had started to melt. The sticky stuff began to run down my hand and arm. Everywhere I licked the cone got soft and started to leak. I was so impatient to get to the car and turn on the AC. DH's didn't run like mine. I got paper towels from the trunk and wrapped the cone with 4 or 5 sheets and managed to stem the tide somewhat. However, we were 20 minutes from home and I wanted to put the cone in the freezer (too big to eat at one sitting). When we got home we figured out why the quick melt. The temperature was 102° F!!! I did salvage some of the ice cream and cone by getting it into the freezer asap. Moral of the story is: in over 100° weather, get only small cones.

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I live on the Moray Firth in Scotland with my husband John, pet sheep, a horse and various wildlife friends. I am a keen crafter, particularly rubber stamping and card making. I enjoy all aspects of crafting and also observing life in the countryside.